Krislyn Michel

Two Black technologists collaborate on a program together. One day, Allison Bland, a media specialist from Princeton University, was driving  through Brooklyn when Google Maps told her to “turn right on Malcolm Ten Boulevard.” It was  a clear error on behalf of the technology, which erroneously interpreted the “X” in the street name as the Roman numeral for ten instead of the street’s actual reference to the African-American revolutionary, Malcolm X. It is a mundane error that reveals a lot...

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